carlback: > With ASV down the drain soon how hard with it be to package up the > squiggle browser as some sort of browser plugin? > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/svgviewer.html
Ruud just asked me this same question. This is what I said: Mmm, well I have thought of such a thing in the past. I managed to implement a Netscape plugin which, when loaded in a web page, would replace its own 'object' element with a corresponding 'applet' element that loaded Batik in the applet. It's a bit hacky, because it modifies the document, but it seemed to work. The advantage of having an actual applet in the document is that scripting it from the HTML works easily. Unfortunately the Netscape plugin interface isn't supported by IE any more, so I'd have to write an ActiveX control I think, and I have no idea how to do that! Also I don't know if it's possible with ActiveX controls to access the containing HTML document (to do the applet hack). I think the cleanest solution would be to compile Batik with gcj and GNU classpath (which can apparently be done now!), and use Batik's rendering code from an ActiveX control and paint the control properly. I think this might be a lot of work though: all of the Swing component oriented code (event handling, painting) would have to be reimplemented for the ActiveX control. I think it is possible, but I have no idea how to write ActiveX controls. but I think I was over-optimistic: I don’t think GNU Classpath is actually up to the task of compiling Batik. I guess another possibility would be for the ActiveX control to spawn a VM and interact with Batik objects to get the graphics to paint. If anyone has any tutorials/walk-throughs of writing ActiveX controls, I’d be interested to read them. -- Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ▪ ICQ 26955922 ▪ MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
